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Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Size: 7.7 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm
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It's a striking amethyst from the new finds in the Zambezi Valley. The crystal has a size of 7.7 cm with a 4.8 cm long scepter head of brilliant quality! It is glassy and highly lustrous and has the most intensive purple color, especially near the pointed termination! The stem is white quartz with characteristic dots of red hematite inclusions. The whole specimen is in very best damage-free condition and even the bottom is not broken but crystallized.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.2 cm
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This hematite specimen is constructed from several stacked tiles that are sharply defined on all sides and beautifully jeweled with fire red rutiles. There is some feldspar at the base but apart from that it's just solid hematite. The condition is superb with just some insignificant abrasions but nothing that's visible from the front. Absolutely gorgeous little specimen!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 12.2 x 7 x 4.4 cm
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The rich combination of lime-green cuprian smithsonite on white dolomite is utterly amazing! The luminous smithsonite crystals are color intensive, highly lustrous and gemmy! Specimens of such gorgeous abundance are hard to find nowadays but never lost anything of their appeal!
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The perfection of this beautiful quartz arrangement is totally stunning in person and all main cyrystals are completely flawless!
A second generation of small quartz crystals that is distinctly visible in the pictures is in fact solely grown on the backside of the main crystals. However, through the glassy crystal bodies and the pristine surface those crystals are easily visible and beautifully reflect the light in all directions!
Some iron oxide between the main crystals adds a golden orange color which makes this specimen even more interesting and alive!
At the base you will find pericline and calcite.
Teufelsmühle, Habachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.2 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm
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Spectacularly lustrous and completely limpid through and through without even the slightest impurity! While the bottom is partly broken, the rest of the crystal is completely flawless down to the smallest detail! The crystal shows the original hexagonal shape but is etched all around. We have seen many Alpine skeletal quartz but the quality of this one is truly phenomenal!
Hiefelwand, Grieswies, Raurisertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm
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Finding a good and appealing scheelite from the Austrian Alps is next to impossible. Luckily this excellent single crystal exemplar was part of the Karl Podpeskar collection that we recently acquired.
And it is a fabulous specimen indeed! Perfect dipyramidal shape and juicy orange color are combined on this rare crystal that is complete all around and without any damage. Both tips are somewhat rough but which is contact induced, not damaged.
The crystal is translucent, in parts even transparent and shows very nice luster.
It was found by Hubert Fink around the year 1990.
Großer Finagl, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.7 x 7.3 x 6 cm
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Alpine prehnite is hard to come by so we were happy when this specimen came in the collection of Karl Podpeskar. It’s a prehnite from Großer Finagl, a summit between Untersulzbachtal and Habachtal. The piece shows a three-dimensional landscape of pure prehnite. The condition is excellent with only some periphery contacts.
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 7.6 x 3.3 x 4.1 cm
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This is a very interesting calcite with a beautiful aesthetics. It is much more 3-dimensional in person than shown on the photos. The color changes from the upper to the lower side, what highlights the main crystal very well.
Schinschlucht, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7.1 x 4.8 x 3.4 cm
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This crystal is very glassy and perfect all around! It has some beautiful inclusions of chlorite, while the matrix is partially coverd by a brwonish layer. It has an intense luster and a great visual impact! I was very lucky to get it out of a collection, as I have not seen any pieces in that quality from new findings!
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 6.7 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
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Another fine fluorite of great aesthetics!
Konar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan
Size: 5.1 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
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Two beautiful tourmalines in combination with some cleavelandite are foarming this outstanding piece! We have two different crystal habits here, while the left one shows the common flat termination, the other one is well pointed and very elegant! To see both together side by side on one piece is very rare and unique! The crystals are translucent, glassy and of bright pink color! This is a choice piece and was in the private collection of Herb Obboda for years! Stunning in person!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 11.6 x 9.7 x 6 cm
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Now, this is an extraordinary piece! I love the wild beauty and the chaotic aesthetic of these perfectly lustrous and clear quartz crystals. Size, quality, composition: It all fits on this piece. The crystals are grown on a matrix, which is more or less completely covered in quartz and calcite. You will not find a downside, this is a perfect floater and flawless all around. Especially lovely is the doubly terminated quartz, riding piggyback at the very top.This specimen might not be everybody’s taste but then, which one is?